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CVE-2026-24061
CWE-88
Critical
103.8
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 9.8
- Critical · v3.1
- EPSS
- 98.98%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Jan 2026
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-88
- Published
- 21 Jan 2026
- Last modified 30 Sept 2026
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time